It sounds like a joke, but it’s not. Miguel explained his business model to me, and it was hard to dispute the logic. The world’s an increasingly dangerous place for political leaders and citizens alike. Miguel is simply combining the need for safety with the natural desire to look good.
And judging by his success, I’m not the only one who gets it. There were rumors that President Obama wore some of Miguel’s goods during his inauguration. Plus, look at the automobile industry. Not long ago, Hummers were the province of soldiers in combat. Today, they’re a staple of suburban strip malls. How long until Miguel’s pieces follow suit?
Caballero’s clients include some of the continent’s biggest and most controversial leaders: Colombian President
In news sure to delight topheavy Z-list celebrities everywhere, US boffins funded by shadowy federal agencies say they have developed a new kind of silicone implant which can generate electrical power from the movements of the bodily area in which it is placed.
The new technology, developed at Princeton University in the States, involves adding piezo-electric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) to silicone, creating a material which generates electricity when squeezed, mashed or wobbled.
“Because the silicone is biocompatible, it is already used for cosmetic implants,” note the Princeton engineers.
“Natural body movements [could] power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.”
“The new electricity-harvesting devices could be implanted in the body to power devices perpetually, and the body wouldn’t reject them,” adds Michael McAlpine, Princeton engineering prof.
The boffins describe their revolutionary new implantable power-generation tech as “piezo-rubber chips”.
“The beauty of this is that it’s scalable,” said Yi Qi, a postdoctoral researcher who works with McAlpine. “As we get better at making these chips, we’ll be able to make [the power units] larger and larger.”
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Today’s policy artifact landscape has become much more complex given the regulations they must complement and support. Additionally, the complexity of information systems and technology has increased with the advent of the geo-distributed architecture of cloud computing which requires a global perspective for policy development.
Policies are a system of authoritative artifacts deployed to protect an organization’s information assets. Specifically, authoritative artifacts are documents against which an organization executes and operates. Our intent is to provide information security professionals with methods and techniques to drive an aggregate method of policy design and move away from the more individualistic method that has been approached. Aggregation results in policy artifacts that are consumable, extensible and easily sustainable. We will examine how a taxonomy-based approach is used to design policy artifacts. Removed is the unwieldy structure-driven policy architecture that results in redundant, unnecessary and hard to consume artifacts. The migration to a design-driven architecture will reduce the number of policies to design and maintain. Most important, however, they will be written in a manner that is appropriate for the policy consumer.
One of the best uses of taxonomy in the technology world is seen through the development of a data warehouse. Large amounts of information from disparate sources is gathered and organized in a manner to provide an organization with a view of activities, events and behavior when queried and/or analyzed. To render the information in a data warehouse consumable, the information is organized by parent-child relationships in a hierarchal fashion resulting in reports that contain only the information you require to support, make or adjust decisions for the organization. This is the desired outcome for the policies you design and deploy.
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For first responders to a crime scene
The electric power grid has emerged as one of the most critical elements of our nation
We’ve loved. We’ve learned. And we’ve had some of our sexual suspicions confirmed by scientific research. As 2009 comes to a close, LiveScience looks back at the year’s nine most intriguing sex lessons.
Sex smells. A man’s sweat smells different when he’s sexually aroused
In many legal disputes, the smoking gun is found in e-mail, but the cost to search and retrieve electronic evidence is increasingly more than the lawsuit is worth.
The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver recently held a forum for judges and lawyers about the expense of modern litigation and ways of improving the culture of e-discovery.
At the forum, Denver attorney Gregory Kerwin of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP discussed a corporate lawsuit where obtaining e-mails of 30 people over a two-year period cost $3 million and produced 10 million pages to review. The $3 million did not cover the cost of reviewing the contents of the e-mails.
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The World Series brings a lot of commerce to its two host cities, but predictably, some of it isn’t on the up and up.
There was graphic evidence of that when authorities seized about $100-thousand in counterfeit merchandise Monday.
Major League baseball along with Licenses and Inspections raided Sneaker Junction in Old City Monday evening as part of a crackdown on counterfeit World Series gear.
Stuart Drobny is a private investigator contracted by Major League baseball. He didn’t want to show his face because of other ongoing investigations.
“A lot of establishments have been hit, street vendors, a lot of stores and lot of places around the stadium.”
More than two dozen stores and street vendors have been targeted in the last week here in Philadelphia and New York. Detectives took boxes of allegedly counterfeit hats; shirt and sweatshirts out of Sneaker Junction valued at more than $25-thousand.
“The owner was very cooperative and mentioned that he was basically taken for a ride. He was under the impression that this was legitimate merchandise.”
But the store owner is now facing charges and his store has been shut down. The owner locked up the place after L and I left.
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A Maryland man has admitted he posed as a teenage lesbian to trick a 15-year-old girl he met online into sending him sexually explicit photos.
Michael Speelman, 52, of Adelphi, Maryland, went on to feign the suicide of “Lisa Stauffer” – his teenage lesbian alter ego – after she and the victim had established a romantic relationship. In online chats with the victim, Speelman then pretended to be the mother of his deceased alter ego and threatened to make the explicit photos public.
The threats continued even after the victim said she now had a boyfriend and was “moving on” with her life.
FBI agents searching Speelman’s home recovered 38 nude pictures of the girl, who was identified only by the initials C.M. They also found other child pornography, including 10 movie clips of pre-pubescent minors and 10 explicit pictures that appeared to be self-produced by a girl estimated to be between 12 and 15 years old.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ga. (MyFOX ATLANTA) – Montgomery County police said Wednesday that they broke up a dogfighting ring near Macon. Investigators said dogs that were living and fighting in deplorable conditions were safe and recovering at a shelter.
Police said they suspect the dogs were used in a dogfighting ring near Macon. When police and private investigators found the animals, they were chained in a wooded area.
In police video, the dogs are seen with scars and injuries consistent with being used to fight other pit bulls.
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For Matthew Alan Sheppard, all of the anxiety, deception, and delusion converged in one moment on a crisp winter weekend in February 2008. From the outside, he hardly seemed like a man prepared to abandon everything. At 42, he’d been happily married for 10 years, with a 7-year-old daughter and a comfortable home in Searcy, Arkansas. An environmental health and safety manager for the electrical parts maker Eaton, he’d risen in three years from overseeing a plant in Searcy to covering more than 30 facilities throughout North and South America. A recent raise had pushed his salary close to six figures. To his coworkers and hunting buddies, he seemed an amiable guy with a flourishing career.
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